“When I go into a co-write, I
don’t think it’s fair for them to not know what I want to write about.
If I were to just play them the idea that I came in with. I want them
to know the back story. So I’ll walk into a room with a co-writer and
just say, “Hey, nice to meet you. I really need to tell you what I’ve
been going through ‘cause this is what I want to write about.” At that
point Taylor goes into the details of her love life and then she’ll
share any song ideas she’s brought with her. She says, “That way they
know the background on it. They’re not sitting there having to
completely make assumptions based on something they don’t know. If I
tell them everything I’m going through, then it’s easier to write about
it.” She didn’t have to go through that process for her latest single,
“Begin Again,” because it’s one of the songs on her Red album that she
wrote completely on her own.